Tuesday 31 March 2009

Constructivism in fashion




This art movement that apperaed in Russia in 1920`s was a reply to the chages that came after Revolution 1917 year. People faced with new reality to work in fabrics. People was taught how to live in equal society and to share everything and with everyone. This make people to love their work places and make the beauty of fabrics ( metalic constructions, direct lines, sharp corners, red, white and blackk all these charactize constructivizm.
But constructivizm does not only apply to the art, fashion also took some features from it.
Several artists tried to work in clothes design with varying levels of success: Varvara Stepanova designed dresses with bright, geometric patterns that were mass-produced, although workers' overalls by Tatlin and Rodchenko never achieved this and remained prototypes. The painter and designer Lyubov Popova designed a kind of Constructivist flapper dress before her early death in 1924, the plans for which were published in the journal LEF. In these works Constructivists showed a willingness to involve themselves in fashion and the mass market, which they tried to balance with their Communist beliefs.

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  2. Maria exceptional text. I wanted your help because I have a work in university and I search concretely who designers have generally created clothes the inspired from the constructivist and that he has relation with their creations and with their clothes.
    Also i am looking for some text
    FROM 1918 UP TO 1940 THE DEVELOPMENT OF constructivist and CLOTHING. FROM THE POPOBA, THE STEPANOBA ETC.

    thanks for your help if you have something text about that contact me on big_nick@otenet.gr

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